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A real estate agent’s signs in four different locations were vandalized with the numbers “666” spray painted in silver on Tuesday, Nov. 19. The reporting party told police he suspects a brother, according to the public log. Properties on Starlit, St. Ann’s, Glenneyre and Noria...

By Dona Harman, Special to the Independent The Susi Q NeedleArts Guild was busy last Friday, Nov. 22, wrapping over 75 hand-knit and crochet accessories to bring cheer this holiday season to residents of Friendship Shelter and Glennwood Home as well as the homeless through their...

The public is invited to local author Skip Hellewell’s discussion of his works “Loving Laguna” and “Early Homestead Families” at a Laguna Beach Historical Society program Tuesday, Nov. 26. The free 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. program will be held at the Laguna Beach City Hall Council...

If all goes according to plan, the Festival of Arts’ facade may receive a $2 million makeover as early as next fall, according to board president Fred Sattler, who described planned renovations at the festival’s annual membership meeting last week, saying that the...

Two longtime employees of Laguna Beach’s fire department will leave next month, City Manager John Peitig announced. Division chief and fire marshal Dan Stefano, who joined Laguna Beach as a reserve firefighter in 1995 and became a full time firefighter in 1997, will become fire...

The City Council approved a plan Tuesday night to replant native trees to replace those cut down last fall in Bluebird Canyon because of potential hazards. The decision diffused tension as 18 residents weighed in on the issue with opposing viewpoints. When the Council ordered the...

When JFK was shot, my parents were on the parade route. Friends were at the Dallas Trade Mart awaiting Kennedy’s arrival for a highly anticipated speech. I was sitting in a Dallas classroom at Zion Lutheran Elementary School. So many of us will never forget where we were, what we...

Alice Cooper is coming to Segerstrom Center for the Arts. That’s a sentence I never expected to write, but it’s true: the rock and roll icon, master of the macabre, prince of shock-rock, brings his Raise the Dead tour to Segerstrom Hall Tuesday, Nov. 26. I first saw...

When I moved to Laguna, I was pleased to see a museum downtown, and subsequently disheartened by the collection’s limited scope. I also felt the facility had set itself up as a landmark more than a community art center and I more often attended as an afterthought than a...

The only pallet selected in this year’s Holiday Palette Competition was a design made by Sean Tiner based on a photograph he took in Heisler Park. “I wanted to make the sunset color surreal and abstract to reflect the holiday cheer of the season,” Tiner explained. In its 47th...

One-Woman Show Arrives at Avran Gallery New works on canvas and paper by Bay area figurative abstract painter Ursual O’Farrell will be featured at a reception at Avran Art+Design, Saturday, Nov. 23, from 6 – 9 p.m. Guests will enjoy live music and refreshments at the event,...

I now feel like a kid on Christmas Eve. Up until now, I was on the naughty list. Then ‘lo and behold,’ my wife presented me with two tickets to the Sunday performance of “Citizen Twain,” presented by the Laguna Playhouse. Now I have no choice this year, “Every kiss begins with...

The 23rd annual Winter Fantasy, “A Whole New World of Art,” begins Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Sawdust Art Festival and will run over four weekends, including the Friday after Thanksgiving, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. each day, concluding Dec. 14 and 15. Opening day entertainment, free...

Making good on growth plans outlined in 2011, Mission Hospital Laguna Beach will begin a $15 million seismic retrofitting project next week to bring its patient building up to state-mandated quake standards. Michael Beck, vice president of operations at the Laguna campus,...